Livret Scolaire App: A 2026 Guide for Parents

“Livret scolaire application” is a confusing search, because there is no single app called that. The livret scolaire unique (LSU) — France’s official, competency-based student record — isn’t published by one company. It’s generated by whichever platform your child’s school already uses, and which one that is changes what you actually need to open on your phone.

This guide sorts out which of the five platforms behind most French livret scolaire records — Pronote, L’École Directe, Beneylu, Skolengo, and Sacoche — actually gives you an app, which only gives you a web login, and what the LSU export itself actually involves (a detail almost no comparison covers, and the one place where a genuine gap in reader knowledge exists). We also say plainly where BeeNet fits into this picture, which is not as a sixth livret scolaire generator — BeeNet does not produce one, a limit we state directly rather than talk around.

What “livret scolaire” means, and why “which application” is the wrong first question

The livret scolaire unique replaced the traditional numeric bulletin for most of primary and lower-secondary education. Instead of a 0–20 grade per subject, it records a student’s mastery of the socle commun de connaissances, de compétences et de culture — the shared skills framework — at one of four levels, across eight components in five domains. The legal basis is décret n° 2015-1929 (31 December 2015) and décret n° 2015-372 (31 March 2015), and the digital version (LSUN) is retained for three years plus one, per CNIL guidance; a parent can request a paper version instead of using the online téléservice.

The confusion is structural, not a reader’s fault: a school doesn’t “install the LSU app.” A teacher enters competency assessments into whatever platform the school licenses — Pronote, Sacoche, an ENT like Skolengo, or another tool — and that platform exports the data in the LSU’s official XML format, validated by the Ministry of Education, at the end of each term. The result a parent sees might arrive as a PDF from the school, a notification inside an app, or a login to a téléservice portal — depending entirely on which platform generated it. “Which application do I need” only has an answer once you know which of those five your school runs.

What to look for before you assume you need “an app”

• Does your school even have a mobile app for this, or only a web login? Two of the five platforms below are web-only for this specific function.
• Is the platform generating the official LSU export, or just an internal progress report? Some school tools track competencies without ever producing the Ministry-format document — worth confirming with the school directly if in doubt.
• How often is it updated? Ministry guidance recommends exporting at the end of each term, not once a year, specifically so a wrong or missing entry gets caught early rather than sitting uncorrected until the final report.
• Can anything be changed after you’ve seen it? Once bilans are imported into the LSU, they generally cannot be edited — a genuine “check it as soon as it’s visible” situation, not a “come back to it later” one.
• Who is actually responsible for the data if something looks wrong? For most of these platforms that’s the vendor or the ministry system feeding it (ONDE for primary, Siècle for secondary); for one — Sacoche — it can be the individual school or teacher hosting their own instance, which changes who you’d actually contact.

The five platforms behind most livret scolaire records

1. Pronote (Index Éducation)

Pronote is the reference tool for public collège and lycée in France (roughly 90% coverage, per the publisher), and it does have a genuine mobile app. Absence justification and the “carnet de liaison” column sit inside the same interface parents use for grades; the primary variant, PRONOTE Primaire, explicitly supports teachers “mettre un mot dans le carnet de liaison.” Pronote generates the official bulletin/LSU-compatible document as part of its normal teacher workflow.

The trade-off is reliability sentiment, not the LSU mechanism itself: Pronote’s own App Store rating sits around 1.57/5 on more than 4,300 reviews — a figure worth reading with one caveat, since a real share of negative reviews are students venting about school itself rather than the software (the same pattern shows up in reviews of the other platforms below). Pronote is quote-only for pricing, with no public rate card, and is hosted in France under SecNumCloud certification — the strongest documented security posture among this group.

Best for: parents and teachers at a public collège or lycée, where Pronote is very likely already the platform in use regardless of preference.

2. L’École Directe (Aplim)

L’École Directe is the dominant platform for private and Catholic contracted schools in France, from maternelle through lycée. It has a mobile app, and its feature set — absence and authorization management, digital document distribution with e-signatures, and a cahier de texte — covers the LSU-generation job as part of a broader admin layer rather than as a standalone livret feature.

Its App Store rating (1.93/5 on roughly 21,000 reviews) and a Trustpilot score of 1.5/5 (on a much smaller, unclaimed sample of 40 reviews) both sit low, and a portion of this reflects the same “students rating the existence of homework” phenomenon as Pronote. What’s specific and worth flagging: user reports of the cahier de texte occasionally displaying empty after an app update — a concrete reliability complaint, not a vague one. Pricing is quote-only per school, and support routes through the établissement rather than a direct Aplim contact channel.

Best for: families already at a private or Catholic contracted school — there’s rarely a choice to make here, since the school selects the platform.

3. Beneylu School

Beneylu is scoped to primary schools only, and it’s the one platform in this group with genuinely public, transparent pricing (€79 per class or €299 per school per year for the standard tier; €179–€599 for the “Infini” tier with added pedagogical resources) and named French hosting (Scaleway, OVH), SDET-compliant. It has a real mobile app, and its liaison and cahier de texte features are dedicated, named products rather than folded into a general admin menu.

There isn’t meaningful independent review volume for Beneylu, which cuts both ways — no red flags, but no crowd-verified reliability signal either. Its scope is the real limit: a family whose child moves from CM2 into sixième won’t find Beneylu on the other side.

Best for: primary schools and their parents specifically, where its focused feature set and transparent pricing are a genuine advantage over the quote-only tools above.

4. Skolengo (Kosmos)

Skolengo is a regional, académie-procured ENT — a school doesn’t choose it independently, its région does. It’s deployed across 4 régions, 43 départements, and 14 académies plus AEFE schools abroad, hosted in France (NFrance). It has a mobile app and generates the LSU-compatible bulletin as part of its module set.

Its App Store rating (2.77/5 on 632 reviews) is a smaller sample than Pronote’s or L’École Directe’s, but one concrete, actionable complaint recurs in it: parents want notifications for new grades and cancelled classes, which the app doesn’t currently surface proactively.

Best for: parents in a région where Skolengo is already the deployed ENT — there’s no alternative to select here either.

5. Sacoche

Sacoche is the one genuinely free tool in this group, and the one with no native mobile app at all — it’s web-only, on any device with a browser. It’s built and hosted by Sésamath, a nonprofit association of teachers, not a commercial publisher, and it’s the platform most schools actually use to generate the LSU export from competency data in the first place — which makes the missing app a real, not cosmetic, limitation for anyone hoping to check it from a phone. We cover exactly how its export works in the next section, since it’s the most specific, least-documented part of this whole picture.

There is essentially no usable review data for Sacoche: it has no app to rate, and “sacoche” (French for “satchel” or “bag”) is also an ordinary word, which pollutes any attempt to search for reviews. We say this plainly rather than filling the gap with a number that doesn’t exist.

Best for: teachers doing competency-based assessment specifically, and schools that want a free, self-hostable tool rather than a paid SaaS vendor — with the explicit trade-off that there is no app for parents to check on their own.

Sacoche and the LSU export, explained

This is the part of “livret scolaire application” that a five-way feature-table comparison usually has no room for, and it’s worth understanding even if your school doesn’t use Sacoche — the mechanics are close to identical across platforms.

Sacoche (SACoche, “Suivi d’Acquisition de Compétences”) was created in the summer of 2009 by Thomas Crespin, a middle-school maths teacher and Sésamath member, released publicly that September, with a self-hosted downloadable version available since July 2010. It’s distributed free of charge under the AGPL 3 license, with no paid tier at any scale; Sésamath states its annual operating cost at roughly €25,000, funded by donations and school or local-government contributions rather than a subscription. Because it runs on PHP and MySQL/MariaDB and is self-hosted — by the établissement, the rectorat, or an individual teacher — there is no centralized Sésamath-run instance. That matters for anyone asking “who’s responsible for my data here”: hosting and GDPR responsibility depends on whoever runs that specific instance, not on Sésamath as a central processor.

The export itself is a two-step process, not a single button. First, a “récolte” (data-collection) step runs per class, flagging missing, incomplete, or inconsistent entries before they can cause an LSU import to be rejected. Second, the platform generates the actual XML file, scoped by level and by student, gated behind first producing a full PDF printout. The prerequisites differ by level: primary requires importing student and class data from ONDE (formerly BE1D) first; secondary requires importing from Siècle plus a nomenclature file. Ministry guidance recommends exporting at the end of each period rather than waiting for the year’s end, specifically to catch errors while they’re still fixable — because once bilans are imported into the LSU, they generally cannot be edited afterward.

Sacoche is not a full ENT, and it isn’t trying to be one: no messaging, no cahier de texte, no attendance tracking, and — as above — no mobile app. It complements a life-administration tool like Pronote or L’École Directe rather than replacing one, and it isn’t the only platform that can generate an LSU-compatible document — all five platforms in this guide do. What makes it distinct is being free, competency-first by design rather than numeric-grade-first, and genuinely self-hostable instead of vendor SaaS.

The regulatory backdrop, briefly

The LSU framework rests on décret n° 2015-1929 and décret n° 2015-372, with four mastery levels across eight socle-commun components in five domains. As of September 2025, an arrêté decoupled the brevet’s contrôle-continu score from the 800-point socle-commun calculation the LSU previously fed into, replacing it with a simple average of troisième grades — the LSU and socle framework itself wasn’t abolished, only its role in that specific score changed. A recurring, documented complaint from teacher representatives is workload: double entry of numeric grades and competencies, and a “communication of the bulletin to parents that isn’t satisfactory” — a legitimate frustration behind some of the “why is this confusing” energy in the original search.

Which app should you actually open?

• Public collège or lycée → Pronote’s app. There’s usually no alternative to pick between.
• Private or Catholic contracted school → L’École Directe’s app.
• Primary school only → Beneylu’s app, if your school has adopted it.
• A région that has deployed Skolengo → Skolengo’s app.
• A school using Sacoche for competency tracking → there is no app; check the web portal your teacher or school points you to instead.
• Genuinely not sure? Ask the school secretariat which platform generates the report card — it’s normally stated in the enrollment paperwork, and it’s the fastest way to get a real answer instead of guessing from an app store search.

Comparison table

	BeeNet	Pronote	L’École Directe	Beneylu	Skolengo	Sacoche
Native mobile app	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌ web-only
Generates official LSU / bulletin	❌ coming soon	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Free tier	✅ up to 25 members	❌	❌	⚠️ per-class pricing	❌	✅ 100% free
Public, transparent pricing	✅	❌ quote-only	❌ quote-only	✅	❌ regional procurement	✅ (free)
Hosting / GDPR	EU (Azure)	France, SecNumCloud	France (claimed)	France (Scaleway, OVH)	France (NFrance)	Varies by self-hosting operator
Segment	Schools, sports clubs, daycares, community centers	Public collège/lycée	Private/Catholic contracted	Primary only	Regional public ENT	All levels, competency-only
App Store rating (where it exists)	New — not yet publicly rated	~1.57/5 (4,300+)	1.93/5 (~21,000)	No meaningful volume	2.77/5 (632)	No app to rate
Native Arabic + RTL UI	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌

Where does BeeNet fit?

Nowhere in the list above, and we’d rather say that plainly than stretch to fit. BeeNet does not generate a livret scolaire or an LSU export — that capability is coming soon, not available today, and if that’s specifically what you searched for, one of the five platforms above already does the job for your school.

What BeeNet actually does today for a school, alongside whichever of those five it already uses: messaging and announcements between staff and families, attendance tracking with French regulatory exports, a digital homework diary, and grade entry and review with parent-facing visibility — competency-style progress notes, not an automated, Ministry-format bulletin. It’s built on EU-hosted infrastructure with passwordless parent login, and it’s the only platform in this group with a native Arabic interface and full right-to-left support, which matters specifically for francophone schools in Morocco or Gulf contexts with Arabic-speaking families.

Who this is actually for: a school that wants a modern communication and attendance layer running alongside Pronote, Sacoche, or whichever tool produces its official livret scolaire — not instead of it. If automated, Ministry-format report generation is the one thing you need solved this year, BeeNet isn’t that tool yet, and we’d rather you know that before you evaluate it than after.

Frequently asked questions

Is there one official “livret scolaire” app?

No. The livret scolaire unique is a document format the Ministry validates, not a single app. It’s generated by whichever platform your child’s school licenses — Pronote, Sacoche, Skolengo, L’École Directe, or Beneylu are the five behind most current records — so “which app” depends entirely on which one your school uses.

Can I check the livret scolaire from my phone?

Usually yes, but not always. Pronote, L’École Directe, Beneylu, and Skolengo all have native mobile apps. Sacoche is web-only on any device, with no dedicated app — a real limitation if a school relies on it and you were hoping to check things from your phone specifically.

Is the livret scolaire the same as a bulletin de notes?

Not exactly. A traditional bulletin uses numeric grades (0–20) per subject. The livret scolaire unique instead records mastery of the socle commun’s competencies at one of four levels, across eight components — a competency framework rather than a grade average, even though many schools’ platforms display both.

Can a teacher or parent change something after the LSU export?

Generally no. Once bilans are imported into the LSU, they typically cannot be edited afterward, which is why Ministry guidance recommends exporting and reviewing at the end of each term rather than waiting until the school year ends.

How long is the digital livret scolaire kept?

Per CNIL guidance, the digital LSU (LSUN) is retained for three years plus one additional year — roughly one school cycle. The online téléservice is optional; a parent can request a paper version instead.

Does BeeNet show the livret scolaire?

No, and we’re not going to imply otherwise. BeeNet handles school communication, attendance, homework, and grade entry and review alongside whichever platform your school already uses for the official livret scolaire itself — automated LSU-format generation isn’t a BeeNet feature today.

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For schools weighing communication and attendance tools separately from whichever platform handles the livret scolaire itself, BeeNet is one option worth a look — see how it compares on grade entry and review, or book a demo to see the parent- and teacher-facing side directly.